Real and Virtual Printers and Punches and File Transfers
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Thinking about how I might be able to transfer?a simple text file from within CMS to the Hercules?host I had the idea that I may be able to send it to the card punch which would should then appear in the a host file but I then discovered that VM virtualises the card punch so when you use the 'punch' command the output is placed in a spool file.? Not a great surprise but the spool file is not marked as held and yet I can't seem to find any way to tell the VM spooling system that it should send that file to what it thinks is the real card punch (i.e. the one virtualised by Hercules, not VM).? Exactly the same situation applies to the printer.
Searching, I didn't find any solution to for the card punch; most documentation and web resources are more recent and I don't suppose anyone would think that you'd want to use a real card punch.
For printing, the only solution I found any mention of involved driving the printer from MVS, either on a completely different machine, or by running MVS in a VM on the same machine and either way using an extra bit of software whose name I have forgotten to transfer the spool files from VM to MVS.? Is there no easier way, especially as I suspect the bit of software concerned may be proprietary.
So stepping back a bit, what is the easiest way to transfer text files between CMS and the Hercules host OS?
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